Our Team
Tamari Shalamberidze, PhD student, Fall 2019 - present
"Hi, my name is Tamari and I am a PhD Student at the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute. I use electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate brain rhythms related to anxiety and memory processes. Despite the fact that anxiety and memory are typically studied separately, they share an EEG correlate, called Frontal Midline Theta (FMT) oscillation. My goal is to discover the neural relationship between anxiety, memory, and FMT."
Amir Shafaghat, Volunteer Research Assistant, Winter 2020 - present
"When given a list of items to study and remember later, most people find it easier to divide the list into groups (chunks) of smaller sizes. Research has shown that such grouping strategies are, indeed, effective in improving memory for lists of items, when the order of those items is important. My research involves studying the effects of different chunking (grouping) approaches on memory mechanisms used to store and retrieve lists of complex stimuli."
Sergio Barra, Masters Student, Fall 2021 - present
"My research is about how memory for a given word is affected by its different meanings and the context that activates such meanings (if one studies RIVER-BANK, BANK is harder to recognize when you think about MONEY). My focus is on testing the predictions given by our mathematical models regarding this effect, and see how they may generalize to other memory phenomena."
Ayaan Jutt, Computer Science Undergraduate, Winter 2023 - present
"My name is Ayaan Jutt, an I am currently researching whether or not sleep can retroactively fix the issues of associative interference."
Muhammad Bilal Khan, Psychology Undergraduate, Winter 2023 - present
"Hi everyone, my name is Bilal, and my research mainly focuses on testing performance on the Judgments of Spacing (JOS) task, one of several tasks used to study human order memory."
Madhvi Sharma, Psychology Undergraduate, Fall 2023 - present
"Hi I’m Madhvi! I’m currently working on creating a replication of the Schvaneveldt lexical ambiguity experiment. This is to test whether there is a difference in reaction times when dominant vs non-dominant meanings are presented after an ambiguous word."
Kieran Pawluk, Psychology Undergraduate, Winter 2024 - present
"I'm working on improving the BOSC method, which is used to distinguish between oscillatory vs non-oscillatory activity in EEG."
Gaurav Bansal, Psychology Undergraduate, Fall 2023 - present
"My name is Gaurav and I am researching how effectively people are able to estimate their recall ability in both the forward and backward directions when asked to recall a list of consonants."
Aditi Roy, Psychology Undergraduate, Winter 2024 - present
"My name is Aditi and my research concerns memory for visually transformed text."
Devon Yanitski, Psychology Undergraduate, Winter 2025 - present
"I just completed my Psychology Specialization degree. I'm currently working on applying mass univariate analysis to our lab's EEG data, which led me to the abitious task of publishing an improved version of the LIMO MEEG Matlab toolbox. In addition, I am doing research on the Retrieving Effectively from Memory (REM) Model by introducing modern memory paradigms such as attentional subsetting theory. I am also interesting in research pertaining to large-language models, and frequently use them for coding; for instance, this Discord Integration Matlab toolbox and even this lab website!"
